Some weeks ago I issued a challenge to academia: who will be the first to have the guts to call out the dishonest voting rights scholarship of Stanford Law Professor Pam Karlan?

Karlan published patently false statements in a Duke Law journal about the Bush administration’s voting enforcement record.  From ELC:

She should be embarrassed and ashamed for publishing false statements in the Duke University Law review. (Pamela S. Karlan, “Lessons Learned: Voting Rights and the Bush Administration,” 4 Duke J. Const. L. & Pub. Pol’y 17 (2009)). She has no room to criticize George Will for imprecise language. From my book Injustice (page 162):

“These arguments—that the Brown case was the first Section 2 case brought by the Bush DOJ, and that for five years no case was brought to protect minority voters—are common untruths told by critics of the Bush administration. Stanford Law professor Pam Karlan peddled this nonsense in a published law review article that falsely states ‘for five of the eight years of the Bush Administration, [they] brought no Voting Rights Act cases of its own except for one case protecting white voters.’ In a footnote, Karlan says she relied on Obama Voting Section chief Chris Herren for information for her article.”

Karlan’s scholarship was patently false, and she has never corrected it as far as I know.  Soon after publishing that post, I asked:

So where are all the law professors who love to snipe at any statement made by a conservative with which they might quibble? Where are the guardians of precision and honesty when it comes to Karlan’s falsehoods? Maybe one of them will have the guts to call Karlan out on her false statements in the Duke Law piece. Will the Ivory Tower call out another professor for false scholarship?

As expected, all we heard from the ivory tower about Karlan’s false scholarship was – crickets.

Today Democrat activist posing as a law professor Rick Hasen has a blog posting at Reuters about the Shelby case which mentions Karlan. 

Does Hasen at last call out Karlan for publishing false information in an academic journal?  Does he display intellectual honesty and finally draw attention to the defects in Karlan’s past voting rights work?  After all, this is the same professor who pestered Hans von Spakovsky to turn over a grand jury report that von Spakovsky took the time to obtain (and Hasen could have done the same).  This is  the same professor that took to Twitter and his blog to demand that this blog remove a posting that accurately reported the information received that Hasen had been challenged to a debate.  I haven’t seen any posting by the same professor that Karlan should correct her phony Duke Law review article.

Instead, we get a pleasant passing reference about Karlan:

“But in the wide public debate about this case, we are getting to the point where — as election law scholar Pam Karlan has noted — everything has been said, but not necessarily by everybody.”

How sweet.  The “election law scholar’s” scholarship, particularly in the Duke Law review, is not mentioned.  We would expect no less from him, because he is not an equal opportunity pest.  Conservatives must correct blogs about debates and turn over grand jury reports to the inquisitor.  But if a fellow left wing academic happens to lie in a law journal, just brush that aside in the interest of solidarity, you see. 

UPDATED: “Scholar” Rick Hasen Resorts to Name Calling.